Programming in Scala, 2nd Edition

Programming in Scala: A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide, 2nd Edition
Scala is an object-oriented programming language for the Java Virtual Machine. In addition to being object-oriented, Scala is also a functional language, and combines the best approaches to OO and functional programming. In Italian, Scala means a stairway, or steps–indeed, Scala lets you step up to a programming environment that incorporates some of the best recent thinking in programming language design while also letting you use all your existing Java code. Artima is very pleased to publish a new edition of the best-selling book on Scala, written by the designer of the language, Martin Odersky. Co-authored by Lex Spoon and Bill Venners, this book takes a step-by-step tutorial approach to teaching you Scala. Starting with the fundamental elements of the language, Programming in Scala introduces functional programming from the practitioner’s perspective, and describes advanced language features that can make you a better, more productive developer.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A Scalable Language
Chapter 2: First Steps in Scala
Chapter 3: Next Steps in Scala
Chapter 4: Classes and Objects
Chapter 5: Basic Types and Operations
Chapter 6: Functional Objects
Chapter 7: Built-in Control Structures
Chapter 8: Functions and Closures
Chapter 9: Control Abstraction
Chapter 10: Composition and Inheritance
Chapter 11: Scala’s Hierarchy
Chapter 12: Traits
Chapter 13: Packages and Imports
Chapter 14: Assertions and Unit Testing
Chapter 15: Case Classes and Pattern Matching
Chapter 16: Working with Lists
Chapter 17: Collections
Chapter 18: Stateful Objects
Chapter 19: Type Parameterization
Chapter 20: Abstract Members
Chapter 21: Implicit Conversions and Parameters
Chapter 22: Implementing Lists
Chapter 23: For Expressions Revisited
Chapter 24: The Scala Collections API
Chapter 25: The Architecture of Scala Collections
Chapter 26: Extractors
Chapter 27: Annotations
Chapter 28: Working with XML
Chapter 29: Modular Programming Using Objects
Chapter 30: Object Equality
Chapter 31: Combining Scala and Java
Chapter 32: Actors and Concurrency
Chapter 33: Combinator Parsing
Chapter 34: GUI Programming
Chapter 35: The SCells Spreadsheet